State v. Eyer

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The accused, Delbert W. Eyer, having been convicted under an indictment returned by the St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury charging him with the murder of Mrs. Myrtle Jones Pichón, and sentenced to death, prosecutes this appeal from the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the court.

It is apt to observe that not a single bill of exceptions was reserved during the entire course of the trial. It was only after the prosecuting attorney had completed his closing'argument to the jury that counsel reserved his first bill when the trial judge refused to instruct the jury to…